scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of … had constant incomes. This suggests that over a longer period, adaptation to changes in income is asymmetric: people adapt …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence … of adaptation within a poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. We cannot …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence … of adaptation within a poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. We cannot …

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model provides evidence that adaptation takes place within a relatively … short window of time: changes in living conditions are, for the most part, absorbed by an adjustment of the adaptation level …

Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests … variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …

freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to … human well-being and the phenomenon of adaptation. Many challenges, of course, remain. First, we are only at the beginning … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence … presented in Stevenson and Wolfers (2008, BROOKINGS PAP ECO AC), we now count three exceptions supporting Easterlin s happiness-income …

scaling of satisfaction.The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of … had constant incomes. This suggests that over a longer period, adaptation to changes in income is asymmetric: people adapt …

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …